News

16 June 2017 - 12:15pm

By Mark Dearn

In the past week we have seen seismic changes in UK politics. For our campaigning for trade justice, these changes may have a significant impact – but one which must not and will not affect the core principles and values we champion.

15 June 2017 - 3:15pm

The BBC report simply underscores the central role that the UK government plays in arming repression around the world. It makes a mockery of any commitment to democracy and human rights. The UK government has a serious case to answer in allowing these deadly deals to be done.

14 June 2017 - 10:30am

A judicial review over the UK government’s controversial new pension investment regulations begins today. The government has a serious case to answer when it blocks local communities from taking ethical stances against the likes of G4S whose complicity in the abuse of Palestinians’ human rights is proven.

13 June 2017 - 2:15pm

War on Want in the Guardian. For several decades now the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous community in Brazil have been under threat from the rapid expansion of large-scale Soybean and Sugarcane plantations for the global biofuels market. Most of their land has been stolen and their forests destroyed. They have been subjected to targeted assassinations, forced evictions and land grabs.

13 June 2017 - 8:45am

Migrant workers have long made an essential contribution to public services, such as the NHS and social care, where employers recruit migrants in order to keep services running. We must stand with migrant workers.

12 June 2017 - 11:00am

By Asad Rehman, Executive Director, War on Want

June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s longest running military occupations when Israel occupied the West Bank including East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights, known as the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

9 June 2017 - 6:15am

We have cast our votes. Whatever the new government, it doesn’t stop here. We are ready to hold the government to account, to challenge the choices it makes in the interests of the privileged few. We will stand together with the many.

2 June 2017 - 11:30am

This week, a two week old baby was killed during a police assault on the Foremen Road informal settlement in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal. Two days before Baby Jayden Khoza was killed, community leader, Mthunzi 'Ras' Zuma was shot dead after a massive land occupation in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

31 May 2017 - 7:30am

The people of Buenaventura in the Colombian pacific have had enough. For over two weeks, communities and social movements in Colombia's most important port city have been engaged in an indefinite civil strike over the government’s historic neglect of the city's majority Afro-descendent population.